A year ago, sketch-centric guessing game Draw Something became an inescapable phenomenon, pulling in millions of people each day. That success led to a surprising $210 million acquisition of dev studio OMGPOP by Zynga. On Monday, many of those creators were victim of a harsh 520-person culling as Zynga desperately tries to re-structure.But, were those laid-off employees going to let their misfortune keep them down? Doesn't sound like it.

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After those massive Zynga layoffs left them jobless, Business Insider reports, the people at the studio who made Draw Something did the only thing that makes sense: they shredded Zynga t-shirts and got drunk. The article has former employees pointing out the paradox of laying off the company's most successful mobile developers even as Zynga claimed a shifting of focus into mobile as a reason for the lay-offs. From the sound of things, OMGPOP simply wasn't being given enough—or even anything—to do. Being freed from a situation like that, which can't possibly feel good, seems like reason to raise a little hell.